The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating,
original, and authoritative essays on the history and
historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With
essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean,
the Indies, and South America, the Handbook has impressive
geographic and temporal coverage. It also includes a generous range
of thematic essays on comparative slavery, the economics of
slavery, historical methodology in the field, slavery and the law,
for instance. While obviously indebted to the foundational works of
the 1960s and 1970s, current writing on the history of slavery and
forms of unfree labor in the Americas has taken decidedly original,
new, often ingenious turns. A younger generation of scholars has
shown a healthy respect for that tradition while posing new, often
interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed questions,
considering, for example, the nature and definition of slave
resistance in the Americas, evolving meanings of gender and race
under slavery, the complicated nature of class formation in unfree
societies, the elaboration of proslavery and antislavery
ideologies, the origins and subsequent elaboration of race-based
slavery, and mechanisms of emancipation. Written by an
international team including some of the field's most eminent
historians and the most innovative younger scholars working today,
The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas seeks to explain the
enduring importance of the earlier historiography, identify current
trends and developments, and offer suggestive but informed
commentary on future developments in the field for a global
scholarly audience.
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